North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Stercorarius maccormicki Saunders, 1893

Skua (Catharacta maccormicki)

AphiaID

422607 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:422607)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Stercorarius Brisson, 1760

Original name

Stercorarius maccormicki Saunders, 1893

Synonymised names

Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893) · unaccepted (synonym)

Catharacta skua maccormicki (Saunders, 1893) · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Stercorarius maccormicki Saunders, 1893. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=422607 on 2025-01-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-10-06 12:38:14Z

created

db_admin

2011-04-08 06:18:06Z

checked

Adriaens, Peter

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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context source (Bermuda) Dobson, A. F. (2002). A Birdwatching Guide to Bermuda. Arlequin Press, Chelmsford, Essex, 173 pp. [details]

basis of record Gallardo, J. C.; Macías, V.; Velarde, E. (2009). Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> Pp. 1321–1342. [details]

additional source Phillips, L.M., R.I. Leihy & S.L. Chown. (2022). Improving species‐based area protection in Antarctica. <em>Conservation Biology.</em> 36(4): e13885.Aug 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13885 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
Dutch	Zuidpooljager	[details]
English	south polar skuaSouth Polar skua	[details]
French	labbe de McCormick	[details]
German	Südpolar-Skua [from synonym]Antarktik-Skua [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	オオトウゾクカモメ	[details]
Lithuanian	makormiko plėšikas [from synonym]	[details]
Polish	wydrzyk antarktyczny [from synonym]	[details]
Slovenian	antarktična govnačka [from synonym]	[details]
Spanish	págalo polar [from synonym]	[details]
Turkish	büyük güney kutbu martısı [from synonym]	[details]
Welsh	sgiwen pegwn y de	[details]

To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) (from synonym Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Catharacta skua maccormicki (Saunders, 1893))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Stercorarius maccormicki)
To GenBank (323 nucleotides; 294 proteins)
To GenBank (323 nucleotides; 294 proteins) (from synonym Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893))
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893))
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Skua (Catharacta maccormicki)

Image from synonym

Detail of skua

Image from synonym

Stercorarius maccormicki